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The Endemic Diseases of Tropical Climates With Their Treatment
The Endemic Diseases of Tropical Climates With Their Treatment Author:John Sullivan General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1877 Original Publisher: Churchill Subjects: Tropical medicine Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-... more »Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: MARSH MALARIAL FEVER. The influence of the poison of malaria in tropical climates is exercised with an energy unknown in the temperate zone. Its manifestations are more sudden, more deep seated, and more dangerous. It is to this permanent influence and to the violence of its repeated attacks, that we must ascribe the unhealthiness of the torrid zone. Marsh or malarial fever includes all those forms of pyrexia described by authors under the name of intermittent, remittent, continued bilious remittent, pernicious fever,« less